Discover the story of one of history’s most intriguing typographers, Elizabeth Friedlander, in a screening of Katharine Meynell’s short film Elizabeth. It tells of an accomplished designer, who was born into an affluent Jewish family in Berlin, 1903, but had to flee Nazi persecution, taking only her mother’s 18th-century Klotz violin and her portfolio. Once in London, she met Francis Meynell (grandfather of Katharine) who helped her get work and by 1942 she was in charge of design at the Ministry of Information’s ‘black’ (covert) propaganda unit, where she forged Wehrmacht and Nazi rubber stamps, false ration books and more. She is best known for designing the eponymous typeface Elizabeth for the Bauer Type Foundry, which is still used all over the world today and would have been called Friedlander were it not for the rise of the Nazi Party. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director.

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